Beyond Seven Review No. 53

Posted on Wed 23 September 2020 in Beyond Seven Review

Counterantidisintermediation 🌔

  • How to Buy Drugs
    LRB piece on how the online drug market has changed the drug trade.

Free/libre and open-source software 🌺

Information and Geisteswissenschaften 🏺

  • White Words
    Aaron Bady on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. "“Eskimos Have Fifty Words for Snow” is an amazing phrase, because every word in it is wrong."
  • Statement on Gender and Language
    Statement on Gender and Language by the National Council of Teachers of English

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Articles from blogs I follow around the net

BLM in Chinese

The whole world knows about BLM (Black Lives Matter). Native speakers of English (at least American English — I can't vouch for other varieties) instinctively know what the innately idiomatic intransitive verb "matter" means in this constructi…

via Language Log January 12, 2021
Public Domain Day Short Film Contest Highlights Works of 1925

Filmmakers responded with enthusiasm and creativity to a call from the Internet Archive to make short films using newly available content from 1925 in celebration of Public Domain Day. They discovered a new freedom in being able to remix film clips with G…

via Internet Archive Blogs January 12, 2021
Das Monitoring von CLARIAH-DE

Worum geht es? Das bis Ende März 2021 geförderte BMBF-Projekt CLARIAH-DE führt die Angebote von CLARIN-D und DARIAH-DE nachhaltig zusammen, um Synergien sowie neue Nutzendengruppen zu erschließen. Gerade mit Blick auf generische Dienste oder Basisinfrastr…

via DHd-Blog January 12, 2021

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